Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin write by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle. This book was released on 2021-10-11. Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Senses of Touch anatomizes the uniquely human hand as a rhetorical figure for dignity and deformity in early modern culture. It concerns a valuational shift from the contemplative ideal, as signified by the sense of sight, to an active reality, as signified by the sense of touch. From posture to piety, from manicure to magic, the book discovers touch in a critical period of its historical development, in anatomy and society. It features new interpretations of two landmarks of western civilization: Michelangelo's fresco of the Creation of Adam and Calvin's doctrine of election. It also accords special attention to the typing of women as sensual creatures by using their hands as a heuristic. Its alternative interpretations explore in theory and in practice the sensuality, the creativity, and the plain utility of hands, thus integrating biology and culture.
Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine
Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine write by Elisabeth Hsu. This book was released on 2010-05-27. Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, focusing on a biography of Chunyu Yi.
Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England write by Elizabeth L. Swann. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth century - discriminative taste was entwined with embodied experience in this period. Although taste was tarnished by its associations with Adam and Eve's fall from Eden, it also functioned positively, as a source of useful, and potentially redemptive, literary, spiritual, experimental, and intersubjective knowledge. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England juxtaposes canonical literary works by authors such as Shakespeare with a broad range of medical, polemical, theological, philosophical, didactic, and dietetic sources. In doing so, the book reveals the central importance of taste to the experience and articulation of key developments in the literate, religious, and social cultures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Human Spirit
The Human Spirit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Human Spirit write by Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle. This book was released on 2018-11-28. The Human Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle probes significant concepts of the human spirit in Western religious culture across more than two millennia, from the book of Genesis to early modern science. The Human Spirit treats significant interpretations of human nature as religious in political, philosophical, and physical aspects by tracing its historical subject through the Priestly tradition of the Hebrew Bible and the writings of the apostle Paul among the Corinthians, the innovative theologians Augustine and Aquinas, the reformatory theologian Calvin, and the natural philosopher and physician William Harvey. Boyle analyzes the particular experiences and notions of these influential authors while she contextualizes them in community. She shows how they shared a conviction, although distinctly understood, of the human spirit as endowed by or designed by a divine source of everything animate. An original and erudite work that utilizes a rich and varied array of primary source material, this volume will be of interest to intellectual and cultural historians of religion, philosophy, literature, and medicine.
Memory and the English Reformation
Memory and the English Reformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory and the English Reformation write by Alexandra Walsham. This book was released on 2020-11-12. Memory and the English Reformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.
